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Ambulance Services: Motor Vehicles

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many emergency response vehicles are operated by each NHS ambulance trust in England; and what the ratio is of such vehicles per 1,000 of the population. [236989]

Mr. Bradshaw: Information on the number of ambulances operated by each NHS ambulance trusts is not held centrally.

Ambulance Services: Per Capita Costs

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent per person on the provision of ambulance services for (a) each ambulance trust in England and (b) England for the latest period for which figures are available. [236988]

Mr. Bradshaw: The information requested is listed in the following table:


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Trust Expenditure (£000)( 1) Population( 1) Spend per person (£)( 1)

North East Ambulance Service

78,542

2,564,486

30.62

North West Ambulance Service

208,305

6,898,343

30.19

Yorkshire Ambulance Service

152,688

5,174,762

29.50

East Midlands Ambulance Service

132,242

4,368,025

30.27

West Midlands Ambulance Service

145,886

5,381,845

27.11

East Of England Ambulance Service

191,112

5,661,034

33.76

London Ambulance Service

232,451

7,556,930

30.76

South East Coast Ambulance Service

132,772

4,271,166

31.08

South Central Ambulance Service

105,714

4,032,749

26.21

South Western Ambulance Service(2)

n/a

(2,893,487)

n/a

Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS)

66,193

2,289,205

28.91

England(3)

(3)1,445,905

(3)48,198,545

(3)30.00

(1) Expenditure details from Annual Financial Returns of NHS Trusts, 2007-08. Population data based on ONS Population Statistics database (mid year 2007 based on 2001 census) for equivalent strategic health authority regions. GWAS population figures calculated using primary care trust population data from Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bristol, North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire.
(2) Expenditure data for 2007-08 for South Western Ambulance Trust not yet received.
(3) Average based on total trust expenditure and total population figures, all excluding South Western Ambulance Trust.

Aortic Aneurysm: Screening

Dr. Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will publish a timetable for the introduction of the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme; [236464]

(2) when he expects the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme to cover all parts of England; and if he will make a statement; [236465]

(3) which NHS trusts have been selected to participate in the first round of pilots of the abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme; and when they will begin their work; [236466]

(4) what estimate he has made of the number of lives which will be saved in a year following the introduction of the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme. [236467]

Ann Keen: Six early implementation sites have been identified and will start screening by summer 2009. The sites are West Sussex (Royal West Sussex NHS trust), Leicester (University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust), Gloucester (Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS foundation trust), South Manchester (University Hospital of South Manchester NHS foundation trust), South Devon and Exeter (South Devon NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Devon and Exeter NHS foundation trust) and South West London (St George's Healthcare NHS trust). It is anticipated that full national roll out will be achieved by the end of March 2012; work is under way with strategic health authorities to plan for this.

Once fully implemented it is expected that the screening programme will save approximately 700 lives within the first 10 years of screening rising eventually to 1,600 per year.


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Arachnoiditis

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has carried out into possible links between arachnoiditis and depression. [235655]

Dawn Primarolo: None.

Both the Department’s National Institute for Health Research and the Medical Research Council welcome high quality applications for support into any aspect of human health, and these are judged in open competition with other demands on funding.

Cancer: Death

Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of trends in mortality rates of (a) common cancers and (b) rarer cancers; and if he will make a statement. [Official Report, 12 May 2009, Vol. 492, c. 3MC.][232840]

Kevin Brennan: I have been asked to reply.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated November 2008:


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Age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 population by cancer site and sex, England, 1971 to 2005( 1)
Rate per 100,000 population
Sex Site 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982

Male

All cancers

284

286

286

288

284

289

285

286

287

285

284

281

Lung

107

109

109

110

107

108

108

108

106

104

101

100

Colorectal

34

34

33

34

33

34

33

32

32

31

31

30

Stomach

32

31

31

30

30

29

28

28

27

26

25

24

Bladder

13

13

13

13

12

13

13

13

12

12

12

12

Pancreas

12

12

12

12

13

12

12

12

13

13

12

11

Leukaemia

8

7

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

Oesophagus

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

9

8

9

9

9

Prostate

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Brain

4

5

4

5

4

5

5

5

5

5

5

4

Lip, mouth and pharynx

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Kidney

4

4

4

4

5

5

5

5

5

4

5

5

Non Hodgkin's lymphoma

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

5

5

5

5

5

Larynx

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Myeloma

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

4

3

4

3

Hogkin's disease

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

Testis

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Melanoma

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

2

Female

All cancers

175

175

176

178

178

181

179

180

182

183

182

182

Breast

39

39

40

39

40

40

40

40

40

40

41

41

Colorectal

26

26

26

26

26

26

25

25

24

24

23

22

Lung

19

19

20

21

22

22

23

23

24

25

25

26

Stomach

15

15

14

14

13

13

12

13

12

12

11

10

Ovary

13

13

12

12

12

13

12

13

12

12

12

12

Cervix

8

8

8

7

8

8

7

7

7

7

7

6

Pancreas

7

7

7

8

7

8

8

7

8

8

7

8

Uterus

5

4

5

5

4

4

4

5

4

4

4

4

Leukaemia

5

5

4

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

Oesophagus

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Bladder

3

3

3

4

3

4

3

4

4

3

4

3

Brain

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Non Hodgkin's lymphoma

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Myeloma

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

3

2

2

3

Kidney

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Lip, mouth and pharynx

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Melanoma

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

2

2

2

Hogkin's disease

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Larynx

0

0

1

0

0

1

1

1

1

1

1

1


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